The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has changed the examination dates of subjects of three papers of Class 10 and 12 which includes Tamil language, Gurung and National Cadet Corps (NCC) for Class 10 and has also altered the schedules of other subjects following complaints by students and parents to CBSE about lack of sufficient gap between different subjects and the IIT Joint Entrance Examinations (JEE) 2017 which would be held on April 2.

According to CBSE,

The Tamil language paper has been postponed by eight days, from March 10 to March 18,

Gurung language has been advanced from March 23 to March 10.

NCC examinations, has also been delayed by eight days and it will be held on March 23 instead of March 15.

Additionally, the schedule of five papers of Class 12 namely Theatre Studies, Tangkhul, Physical Education, Sociology and Food Service-II has been altered.

The new date of Theatre Studies paper is April 10 instead of April 20,

Tangkhul language exam will be conducted on April 10 and Food Service paper, which was to be held on April 29, will now take place on April 26.

These changes come in the wake of students and their parents complaining to CBSE about lack of sufficient gap in the dates of Biology paper and IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2017, but the CBSE has kept the schedule for Biology exam unchanged.

The Class 10 CBSE examinations will start from March 9.

At least 10,98,420 students will appear for the Class 12 board examinations this year, while 16,67,573 candidates will take Class 10 examinations this year.